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  2. Seaview Asylum - Wikipedia

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    In 1946 there were 526 patients of which 304 were working around the hospital in wards, the farm, gardens, workshops and kitchen. Patients were not remunerated for their work until 1947. [ 1 ] During the 1950s patient care became more curative as convulsive and drug therapies were introduced but full adoption of these new procedures was ...

  3. Rousham House - Wikipedia

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    Rousham House. Rousham House (also known as Rousham Park) is a country house at Rousham in Oxfordshire, England.The house, which has been continuously in the ownership of one family, was built circa 1635 and remodelled by William Kent in the 18th century in a free Gothic style.

  4. Westland Mansion - Wikipedia

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    Westland Mansion was the home of Grover Cleveland, the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, from his retirement in 1897 until his death in 1908. The house is located in the historic district of Princeton, New Jersey , and is a National Historic Landmark also known as the Grover Cleveland Home .

  5. Antrim Road - Wikipedia

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    The Westland estate was previously home to the Shoukri brothers, two dominant figures in the North Belfast Brigade of the UDA who subsequently fell out of favour. [17] Cliftonville Golf Club is also located on Westland Road. The Antrim Road Police Service of Northern Ireland station is located close to the Cavehill Road junction. [18]

  6. Tissington Hall - Wikipedia

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    Tissington Hall is an early 17th-century Jacobean mansion house in Tissington, near Ashbourne, Derbyshire.It is a Grade II* listed building.. The FitzHerberts, descended from the Norman family of Norbury Hall, acquired Tissington by the marriage of Nicholas FitzHerbert (the second son of John FitzHerbert of Somersal Herbert) to Ciceley Frauncis, heiress of Tissington, in 1465.

  7. Vauxhall Gardens - Wikipedia

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    Vauxhall Gardens / ˈ v ɒ k s ɔː l / is a public park in Kennington in the London Borough of Lambeth, England, on the south bank of the River Thames.. Originally known as New Spring Gardens, it is believed to have opened before the Restoration of 1660, being mentioned by Samuel Pepys in 1662.

  8. Nobel Banquet - Wikipedia

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    The Nobel Banquet (Swedish: Nobelfesten) is an annual banquet held on 10 December (the anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death) in the Blue Hall of Stockholm City Hall, after the Nobel Prize ceremony. [1] [2] At the banquet, for which a formal dress code exists, a multi-course dinner is served and entertainment provided. [3]

  9. Gyeongbokgung - Wikipedia

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    Gyeonghoeru (Royal Banquet Hall) Gyeonghoeru ( 경회루 ; 慶會樓 ), also known as Gyeonghoeru Pavilion, is a hall used to hold important and special state banquets during the Joseon Dynasty. It is registered as Korea's National Treasure No. 224 on January 8, 1985.